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Second in the East Wall History Group November Talks… Monday 19th November @ 8pm : “The 1918 Election: The woman who stood for a workers’ republic” The December 1918 General Election was the first opportunity for Irish women to exercise their newly acquired right to vote. though only 53.3 per cent of the female population […]

Am I alone in finding this piece here by Matthew Goodwin in the Guardian a bit contradictory? He writes about what he terms national populism which he argues is not properly understood by the ‘left’. It would, as always in these discussions, be useful to get a sense of what he means by the ‘left’ […]

The DUP is making much of the idea that there’s a democratic deficit intrinsic in the May Brexit deal (I suppose we can call it that can’t we?). The line is that Northern Ireland in particular is undermined democratically since it, like Britain as a whole, has no voice in making the EU regulations that […]